El territorio es un elemento clave para definir las desigualdades que afectan a las personas
en su acceso a empleos de calidad. A pesar de ello, en América Latina y el Caribe no se …

Although increased attention is given to the tourism–poverty alleviation linkage, limited
research considers the views of poor people, including street vendors, who constitute the …

Strategies aimed at reducing poverty need to identify factors that are strongly associated
with poverty and that could be influenced by policy changes. The study reported here used …

We estimate the informal-formal sector pay gap throughout the conditional wage distribution
using panel data from Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. We control for time-invariant …

This paper uses national representative data from the Ecuadorian Family Expenditure
survey to study the determinants of poverty and informality in the country, taking into account …

We estimate the conditional earnings gap between formal and informal sectors,
distinguishing between salary and self‐employed workers. Rich panel datasets for Brazil …

(ILO 2002). Informal jobs refer to work outside the regulatory framework which are not
subject to labour legislation, social protection, taxes or employment benefits. Various …

La informalidad laboral es una característica estructural de los mercados de trabajo en
América Latina y el Caribe. Este fenómeno incide negativamente en los trabajadores, las …

This study investigates the formal/informal employment earnings gap in Turkey. We focus on
the earnings differentials that can be explained by observable characteristics and …

This paper examines the impact of poverty on the size of the shadow economy using cross‐
country panel data for over 100 countries for the period 1991–2015. The results show that …